Parolee shot, killed during traffic stop

STOCKTON - A parolee was shot and killed by a county deputy early Monday afternoon after the car the parolee was in tried to run down the deputy during a traffic stop.

Anna Kaplan

STOCKTON - A parolee was shot and killed by a county deputy early Monday afternoon after the car the parolee was in tried to run down the deputy during a traffic stop.

Details on the fatal shooting on Lower Sacramento Road south of Eight Mile Road were few Monday as investigators from several law enforcement agencies were at the scene investigating into the evening. Multi-agency investigations are typical for such shootings.

At least one San Joaquin County sheriff's deputy made a traffic stop at 1:09 p.m. Monday on Lower Sacramento Road. A check of the license plate showed that the Honda was owned by a parolee who was considered by police to be armed and dangerous, according to Sheriff's Office spokesman Deputy Dave Konecny.

Two people were in the car. The deputy fired several shots into the car as the driver tried to run down the deputy, Konecny said. Konecny would not say if the person who was fatally shot was the driver of the car. The second person in the car was arrested by the deputy.

Konecny said that sheriff's officials were not releasing any other information Monday evening, including the identities of the deputy, the person who was shot or the person taken into custody.

Police blocked off a portion of Lower Sacramento Road in front of a small apartment complex surrounded by empty fields and residential communities in the making while they investigated the scene into Monday night.

A brand-new housing complex nearby has few residents, but at least one neighbor said he heard a loud argument, screaming and ensuing gunshots.

"I could hear these people arguing back and forth, then five or seven gunshots went off," said Les Howe, 50, who has lived in his new home for two weeks.

Howe said he could not see the crime scene from his house, but the sound of male and female voices arguing, as well as the gunshots, carried across the field that separates his home from the road.

The most recent officer-involved shooting in Stockton took place in December, when a Stockton police officer shot and killed a man to stop him from stabbing a woman. In June, another officer shot and killed a man who police say was leveling a sawed-off shotgun in the officer's direction.

The standard procedure for officer-involved shootings is that the officer is put on a three-day paid administrative leave and that other area law enforcement agencies typically join the investigation. Sheriff's detectives were joined by investigators from the California Highway Patrol and the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office.